Philippine Islands. Agreable to Modern History

Description

copper engraving map from his ‘Atlas Minor’, vol. 1, p. 110. EXTREMELY RARE.

Herman Moll (c. 1654-1732) was one of the most important London mapmakers in the first half of the 18th Century, with a verfy distinctive, recognisable style. He was probably born in Bremen/Germany, ca. 1654 but moved to London to escape the Scanian Wars. His earliest work was as an engraver for Moses Pitt on the production of the English Atlas, a failed work which landed Pitt in debtor’s prison. Moll also engraved for Sir Jonas Moore, Grenville Collins, John Adair, and the Seller & Price firm. He published his first original maps in the early 1680s and had set up his own shop by the 1690s.